Glaciated Margins: The Sedimentary and Geophysical Archive
Product code: SP475
Print publication date: 08/04/2019
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Sedimentology, Geophysics and Geophysical Applications, Quaternary geology
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786203977
Author/Edited by: Edited by D. P. Le Heron, K. A. Hogan, E. R. Phillips, M. Huuse, M. E. Busfield and A. G. C. Graham
Weight: 0.9kg
Number of pages: 288
Online publication date: 19/03/2019
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/475/1
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Special Publication 475
Understanding the sedimentary and geophysical archive of glaciated margins is a complex task that requires integration and analysis of disparate sedimentological and geophysical data. Their analysis is vital for understanding the dynamics of past ice sheets and how they interact with their neighbouring marine basins, on timescales that cannot be captured by observations of the cryosphere today. As resources, sediments deposited on the inner margins of glaciated shelves also exhibit resource potential where more sand-dominated systems occur, acting as reservoirs for both hydrocarbons and water. This book surveys the full gamut of glaciated margins, from deep time (Neoproterozoic, Ordovician and Carboniferous–Permian) to modern high-latitude margins in Canada and Antarctica. This collection of papers is the first attempt to deliberately do this, allowing not only the similarities and differences between modern and ancient glaciated margins to be explored, but also the wide spectrum of their mechanisms of investigation to be probed. Together, these papers offer a high-resolution, spatially and temporally diverse blueprint of the depositional processes, ice sheet dynamics, and basin architectures of the world’s former glaciated margins; a vital resource in advancing understanding of our present and future marine-terminating ice sheet margins.
LE HERON, D. P., HOGAN, K. A., PHILLIPS, E. R., HUUSE, M., BUSFIELD, M. E. & GRAHAM, A. G. C. An introduction to glaciated margins: the sedimentary and geophysical archive
LECHTE, M. A., WALLACE, M. W. & HOFFMANN, K.-H. Glacio-marine iron formation deposition in a c. 700 Ma glaciated margin: insights from the Chuos Formation, Namibia
LE HERON, D. P., BUSFIELD, M. E., ALI, D. O., VANDYK, T. & TOFAIF, S. A tale of two rift shoulders, and two ice masses: the Cryogenian glaciated margin of Death Valley, California
MELVIN, J. Zarqa megafacies: widespread subglacial deformation in the Sarah Formation of Saudi Arabia and implications for the sequence stratigraphy of the Hirnantian glaciation
TOFAIF, S., LE HERON, D. P. & MELVIN, J. Development of a palaeovalley complex on a Late Ordovician glaciated margin in NW Saudi Arabia
HIRST, J. P. P. & KHATATNEH, M. Depositional model for the distal Ordovician glaciated margin of Jordan; implications for the reservoir potential of the Risha Formation
HORAN, K., STONE, P. & CROWHURST, S. J. Sedimentary record of Early Permian deglaciation in southern Gondwana from the Falkland Islands
DIETRICH, P., GHIENNE, J.-F., LAJEUNESSE, P., NORMANDEAU, A., DESCHAMPS, R. & RAZIN, P. Deglacial sequences and glacio-isostatic adjustment: Quaternary compared with Ordovician glaciations
PASSCHIER, S., CIARLETTA, D. J., HENAO, V. & SEKKAS, V. Sedimentary processes and facies on a high-latitude passive continental margin, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica
GALES, J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., LARTER, R., LABERG, J. S., MELLES, M., BENETTI, S. & PASSCHIER, S. Processes influencing differences in Arctic and Antarctic trough mouth fan sedimentology
ANDERSON, J. B., SIMKINS, L. M., BART, P. J., DE SANTIS, L., HALBERSTADT, A. R. W., OLIVO, E. &
GREENWOOD, S. L. Seismic and geomorphic records of Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution in the Ross Sea and controlling factors in its behaviour
LAJEUNESSE, P., DIETRICH, P. & GHIENNE, J.-F. Late Wisconsinan grounding zones of the Laurentide Ice Sheet margin off the Québec North Shore (NW Gulf of St Lawrence)
DOWDESWELL, J. A., HOGAN, K. A. & LE HERON, D. P. The glacier-influenced marine record on high-latitude continental margins: synergies between modern, Quaternary and ancient evidence
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